Eduard Zimmermann (heraldist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eduard Zimmermann (* 1874 in Augsburg ; † 1951 ) was a German heraldist and senior civil engineer.

Zimmermann was born the son of an artist. In Munich he had a professorship at the Royal Building Trade School . Through intensive and thorough study of heraldry, he created around 100,000 index cards on the coats of arms of the Bavarian region.

Fonts

  • Bayerische Klosterheraldik , Munich, 1930 (1900 coats of arms of abbots of the Bavarian and Franconian monasteries) The coats of arms of the abbots and provosts of the monasteries that existed until general secularization in Upper and Lower Bavaria, the Upper Palatinate and Bavarian Swabia, an auxiliary book for the art historian and collector, for the friend of home and family customers, Munich 1930
  • Coats of arms of ecclesiastical dignitaries in Ulrich Richental's chronicle , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 65th year 1938, pp. 140–163 ( digitized version )
  • Index card collection with around 100,000 self-painted coats of arms, including location, blazon and family history (donation to the Augsburg city archive)

literature

  • Gert Oswald: Lexicon of Heraldry . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1984
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German heraldist and senior building officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 1951